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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Is it possible that mcps is finally moving towards a magnet program for the best and brightest per test scores[/b] rather than skewing heavily towards privileged kids with parents equipped to advocate?

And, is there anything wrong with that?[/quote]

Is this failed sarcasm? Did you actually read the *****g  article?[/quote]

You must be one of the "parents equipped to advocate."[/quote]

Anyone who has been following this knows the county moved to universal merit-based selection and away from the older system where students were nominated by their parents. Some people don't like this because admissions are more competitive.[/quote]

OMG, will you stop with this?!  MCPS will not release any admissions data because high metrics (the so-called 99%ers) were not the chief criteria. "Peer cohort" was used to weed out many top-achieving W-feeder school students to keep them in their home schools with two token "enriched" courses. This was done in order to admit more students from underachieving schools, as a proxy for race (which did not work as well as MCPS had hoped). Very few of even the self-reported scores on DCUM indicated top metrics for admitted students.[/quote]

And haven't there been umpteen threads that the ability of COGAT and other standardized tests to distinguish between 99% and 97% is pretty minimal.  I wouldn't get so worked up about a poor kid earning a 92% (who hasn't had all the advantages in life of his richer peer) "sneaking" his way into the gifted program.[/quote]
DP.. then why not let the 99% in and not the 97% if you shouldn't get so worked up about a few % points.  [/quote]

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